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To Kill A Mockingbird – Who Is The Most Guilty Essay, Research Paper


Who is the most guilty? Review the involvement?s


of the characters in the novel and evaluate weather or not they were guilty,


and if so how guilty?


In the classic novel ?To Kill A Mockingbird?


by Harper Lee there is an abundance of characters that could be proclaimed


to be the guilty party, but who is truly the guiltiest one of all? The


definition of guilt is as follows; the state of having done something wrong


or committed an offense; a feeling of self-reproach from believing that


one has done something wrong. My job is to examine the characters closely


and determine who is the most guilty in the involvement?s of Tom Robinson?s


prosecution, conviction and ultimately his death.


As I stated, there is an abundance of characters


that could be guilty, from Mayella and Bob Ewell, Heck Tate, to the jurors


and Atticus Finch. All of these characters play a roll in the story, and


a roll in the events that happened to Tom Robinson.


The story is an interesting one, but guilty


parties are found throughout. The story is set against the background of


nineteen thirties Southern life. The Finches are a family that once ran


a large, successful plantation. Their ancestors had been aristocratic ladies


and gentlemen of the south. Now they are reduced to gentle poverty. Atticus


and his family live in a town named Maycomb, he is a career layer. He has


a son named Jeremy and a daughter named Jean-Louse. They also have a cook


named Calpernia, she is a Negro but they respect her greatly. Racism in


Maycomb is evident almost where ever you look, and Negro peoples don?t


have a chance to succeed.


A family that played a huge roll in the


novel are named the Ewells. They live on the out skirts of town by the


dump, near the Negro dwellings. The family consists of Bob, whom has a


daughter named Mayella and several other siblings. In the context of the


book, they are seen as no better than the Negro?s. There is a sheriff named


Heck Tate, he is the one and only police officer in the small town, and


a judge named Taylor, who in the end hands down Tom?s punishment.


To Kill A Mockingbird deals with many primal


and basic lessons in human nature. The book expresses many issues that


affect people throughout there lives. The novel deals with what you feel


inside, and I think that some of the characters, or at least, they should


be feeling guilt inside.


Atticus seems to be a great guy, and a


pretty good layer also but he too played a roll in the events that happened


to Tom Robinson. Although he did try his best, he was beat before he started…and


he knew this. Atticus fought vigorously for him, but failed. Tom was convicted


on the charges of rape and Atticus said to him that he would try an appeal,


and told him to sit tight. When Tom had been sent to a jail, he was scared


for his life and tried to make a run for it, he attempted to scale a large


fence. He would have made it if only for the fact that his arm lay dead


at his side. He was shot seventeen times in the process. Atticus felt guilty,


he was not able to convince Tom that things would work out for him. He


failed at letting Tom know that he could be free.


The jurors are the single most important


people in the court room, and having a clear mind of all prejudices needs


to be preset. In this case it was not. The jurors virtually held Tom?s


life in their hot little hands, and in their prejudicial ways crushed it


without thinking twice. The members of the jurors are undoubtedly guilty


because of the simple fact that the

re was no hard evidence that Tom did


it, rape Mayella. The jurors should have reviewed the evidence with utter


most care, it almost clearly pointed to Bob Ewell as the abuser simply


for the fact that a right handed person would have beaten her up. Thus


impossible for Tom because his arm lay useless at his side. The evidence


was clear, no doctor was brought to the scene to examine Mayella, clearly


indicating that something was up, clearly indicating that she was in fact


not raped by Tom. The jurors are guilty for the simple fact that they convicted


an innocent man, their racist views go to them and couldn?t see the truth.


In every town there is a sheriff, in Maycomb


his name was Heck Tate. He is the only police officer in town, and he is


also white. He was the first official on the scene when the supposed rape


occurred, and saw Mayella squirming on the floor with her father standing


over her in an esthetic rage. If the sheriff did his investigating in a


better manner he would have discovered that Mayella had been beaten up


by her father. Heck Tate did his job in a lazy manor, and with held evidence


to the extent of his words and his investigating. He took Bob and Mayella?s


word for it without separating them and getting proper statements from


them. He didn?t call in a doctor, which could have determined whether or


not she was raped. In my opinion, Heck Tate did a lousy job in investigating


the whole manner, and for that is guilty for Tom?s conviction and death.


Bob Ewell lived on the out skirts of town


and despised Negro?s. He lived with his daughter Mayella and several other


siblings. He was a mean spirited human being, and spent all the family?s


relief checks on himself buying into his addiction, alcohol. He did see


the events in question, but they did not happen they way he said they did,


not at all. He heard a commotion in the distance and ran to see what the


matter was. He saw Mayella trying to get onto of Tom Robinson, he was mortified.


This was a sin, to be with a Negro man if you were white. Bob started screaming,


and Tom was scared off. He then was so mad he proceeded to beat Mayella


on the right side of her head, later brought into evidence. He knew what


he was doing, he knew he was going to blame Tom for the beating and rape


of Mayella even though he knew that if did not happen(the rape). Bob Ewell


is guilty to the full extent, for costing a man his freedom…and his life.


Mayella Ewell is at the center of the whole


case, she is the key to Tom?s guilt of innocent. If she would have had


the guts to come forward and confess the lie that brought down an innocent


man, the case would have been dismissed. She wanted him so badly because


she had no one. She thought she loved him, but love was inferior to her


urges, she wanted him to love her. She is guilty of planning the whole


event that in the end would take a man?s life. She wanted to get with him,


but her plans didn?t work. When he pushed her away rejecting her she snapped


and opened her mind hating him. The reason she lied was for the simple


fact that he rejected her, and she could not take this. Her guilt is evident


to me, she started a really horrible lie, she was protecting her father.


It was wrong and she is absolutely guilty.


In the end an innocent man was convicted


and died in the hands of the criminal justice system because of a few individuals


I have mentioned. Guilt is evident throughout all of the character, and


maybe even some more can be guilty. At the end I will say this, an innocent


man was convicted and died because of the actions of a few individuals,


and one lie.

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